Hi there - It is late Monday Evening at my house!!

Hi there, we have had another scorcher of a day here. I hope most of the rest of you are getting nice hot summer weather by now??

Here is one more card for the 'Town Scrapper". Tomorrow the five of them are going postal to Phebe. I hope she likes these ones!! More will be on their way in a week or two.

Just before I talk about the card I want to let you all know that Phebe will ship goods anywhere in Canada ( We will have to ask about USA ) She carries many lines of stamps : Magnolia, My Favourite Things; Whipper Snapper, Hanna, High Hopes, Whiff of Joy, CC Designs and has just got the rights to a brand new line. You should hop on over and get the low down! She also carries Design Paper : Imaginisce, Basic Grey, MME, and Paper Make Up. She also sells Nestibilities and a bunch more wonderful things...............

The main image is a Whiff of Joy Stamp from their Summer 2009 Collection, the sentiment is from a previous selection of theirs. The Butterfly Grass and the butterfly are from the Magnolia Spring Butterfly Collection - 2009.

AND NOW I PRESENT MY WEE CARD FOR TODAY LOL LOL:

I always like to show more detailed images if I can. So I got a couple more a little closer:

And here is the last one a bit closer yet:

As you can see this is the tiniest of cards! I hope you all enjoy it anyhow !!

I would like to take this oportunity to thank you all for your wonderful comments on my blog. I have also noticed I have a few more followers the past couple of days - and that REALLY thrills me. I can't thank you enough :o)

See you soon,

Love Candy

Hello on Sunday Evening With a new card for The Town Scrapper

Hi everyone!

Is it as hot at your house as it is at mine today? Our temperature is over 80 still and it is 7:30 in the evening here. I wonder if summer has started :o)


I spent my afternoon making a card with one of the Spring Collection Stamps. I love little Tilda holding the bee :o)
I coloured with my Copics as usual. I don't have dark greys as yet so my bee is a bit lighter than I would like him to be - but I am happy with the rest of the card.....


DP: Basic Grey ~ Urban Prairie
Card Stock ~ white, black, Turquoise.
Touch of ribbon.
Nesties - plain square ~ 3rd largest.
Hand made flowers - I had lots of fun making these :o)
3 Black Pearls ~ MS


Here are my pictures. You will notice the first one was taken before I added the pearls. I felt it needed something in that top right hand corner........






Here is a bit closer picture:





Finally with the addition of the pearls:





I hope you haven't tired of seeing all of these images by now? I wonder how many of you noticed that I FINALLY learned how to crop my pictures today? LOL LOL LOL ~ All of you who have been sick and tired of seeing my messy desk, I bet :o) They are much nicer now.

Have a great week everyone!!
Thank you all so much for taking a look and please remember how much I love to read your comments.
See you again soon ~
Love Candy

Another card for ' The Town Scrapper'

Hi everyone! Wasn't it a beautiful sunny day today? Sure hope it stays this way for the weekend for all those longing for summer.

I have made another card for Phebe and her store 'The Town Scrapper'

This one is different than I have done before and I have learned a lot by making it!!!

Here is the front of the card:

Here it is half open:

And here is the inside of the card:

A close up of: CC Designs Polka dot Emma:

Would you believe this simple card took me half a day to make? Everything I did went wrong! Don't you hate it when you have a day like that??

I used Bassil white and red Bassil Card Stock

DP was Imaginisce : A shore thing and Penguin Paradise

The whole of the white card stock was cut 11 x 4 1/4 then using the Scor-Pal I scored it at 2" and 6 1/2 "

Once the card is folded you can just measure the pieces you need to cover the top and bottom flap, the inside pocket and the tag. As well as your front tab. Cut them out of the DP of your choice; round all the appropriate corners, and decorate as you wish. I had found these flip flops years ago who knows where and I thought one was just perfect for this card! I am so happy I tend to keep everything cute that I find!!!

Please check out Phebe's Blog : Humble Pie as well as her store site. She sells all kinds of brands of papers and stamps and you never know if there may be a special on her store site. Please just click on the left side of my blog on either of the sites you wish to look at. I know you will be glad that you did............

Have a wonderful Friday everyone! Don't forget how much I love to hear your comments on my cards :o)

Love Candy

Happy Saturday with Whipper Snapper

Hi everyone!

I was very lucky to be chosen as a DT Member for the store ' The Town Scrapper' in Ontario.
Today I am using 'Whipper Snapper' as my first stamp image. This is one of my favourites because this little guy is called ' Baseball Brandon' and my Grandson's name is Brandon also and he is playing T Ball this year for the first time.....

Here is a picture of the entire card :
isn't he the cutest???

Today I have used White Card Stock 11" x 5 1/2" and used my Scor-Pal to score the fold at 5 1/2". The Design Paper is Imaginisce and is called: A shore Thing - Sweet Summer Breeze. I cut the DP at 5.4" square and attached it to matching Blue plain DP which is cut at 5.6" square. I cut a very small oval and attached it to my Large Square Scallop Nestibility, in the same DP Blue. The Sentiment is from 'Hannah Stamps'.

**'The Town Scrapper carries : Imaginisce, Nestibilities, the Scor-Pal, and both Whipper Snapper and Hannah Stamps. You can get in touch with Phebe by clicking on her store name on the right hand side of my blog and her address is printed right underneath!

(I coloured my stamped image with Copic Sketch Markers. The colours used were: E00 - E11 - R32 for face, arms and legs; R24 - R29 for the hat and bandaide; B-21 - B24 for the numbers and neck line of his shirt; B93 - B97 for the main shirt; E34 - E37 for the baseball glove; Y11 - Y21 - E 33 for his hair; G03 - G09 for his shorts and socks; Co - C3 - W3 for the baseball and sneakers.)

I took a further two pictures for you to see a close up of 'Brandon'. As you can see the sun was disappearing as I was taking my pictures, so one is much more bright than the other. I think you can see them both well though.


I hope you like this card. Please say hi to Phebe when you see her from me!

Thanks so much for looking! Don't forget how much I enjoy your comments :o)

Love Candy

Happy News !!

I have HAPPY NEWS!!!!

I was accepted by Phebe at the 'Town Scrapper' for her new design team for the months of June and July !!!!!!!!!

I am very excited about it and I hope that I can do justice for Phebe.

Please keep an eye on my blog for all the new cards that I will be making for her and sending to her store in 'Petrolia, Ontario - Canada'.

I shall be starting this weekend.

Thanks so much - :o)

Love Candy

Good Morning!

Hi everybody!! I am sure you are all happy that today is Thursday already LOL

I tried my hand at another Magnolia challenge on the Magnoli-licious site. I buy all my stamps from Diana and her store is on the side of my blog.

This is the May Sketch Challenge designed by our very own Sharon Caudle. As usual I am later than I wanted to be with it. I see I have also used am image that a lot of other have as well. Sorry I just couldn't resist! * Sharon - there really is a piece of purple paper down the middle of the card - my image is so large it barely shows just above and below Miss Tilda!! *

Here she is in all her glory :o):



A close up of my colouring and the shine - I hope :



And the inside:


Details:
Paper~
I happened to have a piece of soft green left in my little pile of Bazzil Card Stock - YAY - so I used that for my card. My DP is from DCWV - Nursery Girl Glitter Chicks, and I also used card stock Very Vanilla and Almost Amethyst from Stampin'Up
Colouring~
All Copic
Extras:
Crystal Lacquer and Swartz. Crystals for rain drops, clear embossing powder on the little bird on the inside.
Stamps~
Tilda with Umbrella from the Chasing Butterflies Spring Collection; Hero Arts Holiday Birds

I believe that is everything. Please ask if you have any questions. You know how I love to read your comments and thank you so much for leaving me some :o)

Just before I go, I wondered how many of you have heard of the new Blog starting up? It is called the Next Level. We won't know what exciting things they will have for us to do, but they promise something very different and they have awesome blog candy for reading their new blog and leaving a comment. Please just click on the new button on the right side of my blog.

Love, Candy

Trying for a DT!

Good Tuesday afternoon everyone!

The 'Town Scrapper' located in Petrolia, Ontario, is looking for 2 GDT team members for the month of June and July.
I have been buying stamps from 'The Town Scrapper' for more than a year now, so I thought I might try for this. Phebe has been a wonderful person to do business with - she is happy, obliging, quick to answer emails and quick to send her product. I wish I lived in the same town so I could go to her store and shop shop shop!!!!

Here are the details to try out for her DT: ~ the must do's:

You must use a Nestibillity
No ribbon
Keep it simple
Perfection is not a must but a love for the absolute.

Phebe did ask for a 'High Hopes' or 'Greeting Farm' Stamp to be used, but she also said you could use whatever stamp you had if you didn't have those. I have ordered some High Hopes stamps, but they have not arrived yet :o( Phebe also wished for us to hand paint our card. Well, I was so looking forward to that as I love painting. As a matter of fact I have been teaching painting, as well as Prismacolor and unscented MS to a lady in Florida on line since just after Christmas!
However when I went to get my water colour paper I found I was all out !!!!!!! So I am doing my card with Copics and hoping for the best!

Here is my card for 'The Town Scrapper'



I laid my card down in the hopes that the boots and wings would be shown to better advantage as they have Stickles and Crystal Lacquer on them.



I then took a close up so Phebe could see my colouring better.



Details:
I used Stampin'Up Vanilla Cardstock and unknown DP I have had for a very long time. I also made this card a different size than usual it is 9 inches long and folded at 4 1/4 inches so that I was able to use a fancy border punch down the right hand side, with Fiskars water punch.
I coloured with Copics, and used a Signo Uni-ball white pen for the highlights.
I then cut out my stamped and coloured image with the large oval fancy Nestibillity
I then used 3 D tape to mount my oval onto my DP
I applied Diamond Stickles to Tilda's wings and Crystal Lacquer to her boots.
I used Zip Dry glue to stick on the bubble gum pink baubbles.

Thank you Phebe for this opportunity. I hope you enjoy my card.

Love Candy